consul-service-discovery-demo

Demonstration of using service discovery using Consul.

Useful commands:

Init server mode

consul agent -server -bootstrap-expect=3 -node=consulserver03 -bind=172.17.0.3 -data-dir=/var/lib/consul -config-dir=/etc/consul.d

Init client mode

consul agent -bind=172.17.0.5 -data-dir=/var/lib/consul -config-dir=/etc/consul.d

Reload context

consul reload

List members

consul members

Registry node

consul join 172.17.0.3

Init agent and join with config file

consul agent -bind=172.17.0.6 -data-dir=/var/lib/consul -config-dir=/etc/consul.d -retry-join=172.17.0.3

Based on course content by Wesley Williams